ScienceDirect to Launch New Release in August 2006
Starting in August 2006, ScienceDirect will release new redesigns and features that will include enhancements to the overall user interface, streamlined browsing and searching and additional personalization features. Additional enhancements will be launched over the next two years. Read more >>
BioMed Central launches four new journals
BioMed Central launches four new journals
BioMed Central launches four new open access, peer-reviewed, online journals:
Cell Division
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
World Journal of Emergency Surgery
BioMed Central launches four new open access, peer-reviewed, online journals:
Cell Division
Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
World Journal of Emergency Surgery
I just love this thought
By K.G. Schneider
The User Is Not Broken: A meme masquerading as a manifesto
Launched after a discussion with a passionate young librarian who cares. Please challenge, change, add to, subtract from, edit, tussle with, and share these thoughts.------------------
All technologies evolve and die. Every technology you learned about in library school will be dead someday. You fear loss of control, but that has already happened. Ride the wave.You are not a format. You are a service. The OPAC is not the sun. The OPAC is at best a distant planet, every year moving farther from the orbit of its solar system.The user is the sun.The user is the magic element that transforms librarianship from a gatekeeping trade to a services profession.The user is not broken. Your system is broken until proven otherwise.That vendor who just sold you the million-dollar system because "librarians need to help people" doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, and his system is broken, too.Most of your most passionate users will never meet you face to face. Most of your most alienated users will never meet you face to face.The most significant help you can provide your users is to add value and meaning to the information experience, wherever it happens; defend their right to read; and then get out of the way. Your website is your ambassador to tomorrow's taxpayers. They will meet the website long before they see your building, your physical resources, or your people. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find a library website that is usable and friendly and provides services rather than talking about them in weird library jargon. Information flows down the path of least resistance. If you block a tool the users want, users will go elsewhere to find it.You cannot change the user, but you can transform the user experience to meet the user. Meet people where they are--not where you want them to be.The user is not "remote." You, the librarian, are remote, and it is your job to close that gap. The average library decision about implementing new technologies takes longer than the average life cycle for new technologies. If you are reading about it in Time and Newsweek and your library isn't adapted for it or offering it, you're behind.Stop moaning about the good old days. The card catalog sucked, and you thought so at the time, too. If we continue fetishizing the format and ignoring the user, we will be tomorrow's cobblers. We have wonderful third spaces that offer our users a place where they can think and dream and experience information. Is your library a place where people can dream?Your ignorance will not protect you.
The User Is Not Broken: A meme masquerading as a manifesto
Launched after a discussion with a passionate young librarian who cares. Please challenge, change, add to, subtract from, edit, tussle with, and share these thoughts.------------------
All technologies evolve and die. Every technology you learned about in library school will be dead someday. You fear loss of control, but that has already happened. Ride the wave.You are not a format. You are a service. The OPAC is not the sun. The OPAC is at best a distant planet, every year moving farther from the orbit of its solar system.The user is the sun.The user is the magic element that transforms librarianship from a gatekeeping trade to a services profession.The user is not broken. Your system is broken until proven otherwise.That vendor who just sold you the million-dollar system because "librarians need to help people" doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, and his system is broken, too.Most of your most passionate users will never meet you face to face. Most of your most alienated users will never meet you face to face.The most significant help you can provide your users is to add value and meaning to the information experience, wherever it happens; defend their right to read; and then get out of the way. Your website is your ambassador to tomorrow's taxpayers. They will meet the website long before they see your building, your physical resources, or your people. It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to find a library website that is usable and friendly and provides services rather than talking about them in weird library jargon. Information flows down the path of least resistance. If you block a tool the users want, users will go elsewhere to find it.You cannot change the user, but you can transform the user experience to meet the user. Meet people where they are--not where you want them to be.The user is not "remote." You, the librarian, are remote, and it is your job to close that gap. The average library decision about implementing new technologies takes longer than the average life cycle for new technologies. If you are reading about it in Time and Newsweek and your library isn't adapted for it or offering it, you're behind.Stop moaning about the good old days. The card catalog sucked, and you thought so at the time, too. If we continue fetishizing the format and ignoring the user, we will be tomorrow's cobblers. We have wonderful third spaces that offer our users a place where they can think and dream and experience information. Is your library a place where people can dream?Your ignorance will not protect you.
Google "Spreadsheet"
You can sign up for an invitation to join "Google Spreadsheets", an on-line servbice that will allow you to:
Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
You can start from scratch and do all the basics, including changing the number format, sorting by columns, and adding formulas.Upload your spreadsheet files.
Upload spreadsheets or worksheets from CSV or XLS format – all your formulas and formatting will come across intact.
Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze. Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, change the font, change the cell background color and more. (...)Choose who can access your spreadsheets.
Just enter the email addresses of the people you want to share a given document, and then send them a message.Share documents instantly.
People with whom you share a given spreadsheet can access it as soon as they sign in.Edit with others in real time.
Multiple people can edit or view your spreadsheet at the same time as you – their names will appear in an on-screen chat window.
Create basic spreadsheets from scratch.
You can start from scratch and do all the basics, including changing the number format, sorting by columns, and adding formulas.Upload your spreadsheet files.
Upload spreadsheets or worksheets from CSV or XLS format – all your formulas and formatting will come across intact.
Familiar desktop feel makes editing a breeze. Just click the toolbar buttons to bold, underline, change the font, change the cell background color and more. (...)Choose who can access your spreadsheets.
Just enter the email addresses of the people you want to share a given document, and then send them a message.Share documents instantly.
People with whom you share a given spreadsheet can access it as soon as they sign in.Edit with others in real time.
Multiple people can edit or view your spreadsheet at the same time as you – their names will appear in an on-screen chat window.
Search Engines: Where We Were, Are Now, and Will Ever Be
An article in Ariadne, in which Phil Bradley takes a look at the development of search engines over the lifetime of Ariadne and points to what we might anticipate in the years to come.
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Looks like competition to Google Scholar
April 11, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the beta release of its Windows Live™ Academic Search service in seven countries. The new search service is designed to help students,researchers and university faculty conduct research across a spectrum of academic journals. The program is a cooperative effort between Windows Live Search, industry association CrossRef and more than 10 leading publishers. The initial beta release will target the subjects of computer science, electrical engineering and physics, and the company is working with multiple organizations to bring new subjects online in the near future. visit to: www.academic.live.com
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